John Kerry Abadons African-American Voters, Too

From a great article in the DailyKos, on Kerry’s failure to step up to the Ohio voting scandal:

Let’s be clear. Â Kerry isn’t being masterful behind the scenes, as some folks want to pretend. He’s saving his political ass, at the expense of the very same Black folks he PROMISED he would not let be cheated out of the right to vote again. Â Kerry isn’t just “waiting his time” – he’s hiding in the latrine, terrified to publicly associate himself with anything that confronts the corruption in Ohio because of the potential political cost to himself and the fear that someone might call him crybaby names (i.e. “sore loser”). Â From the perspective of a white politican, this makes perfect sense since, as anyone involved in mainstream politics knows (even though it is never said in polite company), it is a foolhardy business bucking the system just to protect the rights of some Nigras. Â (Yes, that is extremely bitter and angry sarcasm, and the choice of the word is quite deliberate). Kerry’s conduct and the conduct of the Democratic party vis a vis fighting to count Black votes (and thus, everyone’s votes) in Ohio is not brilliant post-election strategy – it is living, breathing proof of the ongoing cowardice and self-serving nature of liberal white racism, something quite familiar to those people of color in America who have been victimized by it politically over the years even as they were promised it wasn’t true. Â

Read the rest of Shanikka’s diary here. Maybe we can take Kerry and offer him in a package deal to the Republicans with Joltin’ Joe Lieberman, in trade for, say, a case of Chivas Regal?

Jane Hamsher

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